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Tupus gracilis

Insecta - Meganisoptera - Meganeuridae

Taxonomy
Typus gracilis was named by Carpenter (1947). Its type specimen is MCZ 4818, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Midco Locality 12, which is in an Artinskian lacustrine lime mudstone in the Wellington Formation of Oklahoma.

It was recombined as Tupus gracilis by Brauckmann and Zessin (1989) and Nel et al. (2009).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1947Typus gracilis Carpenter p. 48 figs. 24; pl 1, fig 1
1989Tupus gracilis Brauckmann and Zessin p. 182
2009Tupus gracilis Nel et al. p. 98

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
RankNameAuthor
Euhydropalaeoptera
OdonatopteraMartynov 1932
Palaeodonatoptera
Plesiodonatoptera
Apodonatoptera
Paneodonatoptera
Neodonatoptera
orderMeganisoptera
familyMeganeuridae
subfamilyTupinae()
genusTupusSellards 1906
speciesgracilis()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Tupus gracilis Carpenter 1947
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Artinskian or 290.10000 to 279.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3USA (Oklahoma) Typus gracilis (type locality: 104823)